innovation
My first impression of the Centre for Creative Competitive Design
It’s been nearly 4 months since I came to Cranfield University and I want to write something for myself and you to record and show my study and life here. As a visiting PhD student, ...
The 40th Ideas to Innovation (i2i) workshop
On the morning of Wednesday 5th December the CMRI Gallery quickly filled with 40 PhD and postdoctoral students to start a fascinating journey at the Ideas to Innovation (i2i) workshop. i2i was founded in 2002 ...
Operationalising sustainability as an opportunity
"Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.” – Peter Ducker quoted in Grayson D, Coulter C, Lee M, All In: The Future of Business Leadership, Routledge, May ...
‘Grill the Aspiring Geeks’ – Cranfield University stories from the Disruptive Innovation Festival
We recently took part in The Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF), a three-week-long online festival of 'disruptive' ideas (from November 6th to 24th 2017), which is free and accessible to everyone. The festival challenged us to think about ...
Placing my bet on Cranfield – studying a Design MSc
Three years ago, close to starting my last year of a Food and Health Engineering diploma in France, I started to Google potential alternative options for how to finish my course. I was driven by ...
The circular economy hack_dif hackathon: three venues, three continents, one 48 hour challenge…
Last Friday afternoon our Centre for Competitive Creative Design (C4D) was one of three locations, on three different continents, playing host to designers, researchers, innovators and engineers who united to try and solve a circular ...